I don't want to believe the Interproscan DB estimated download time.

Question

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Interproscan in Blast2go is too slow, so I am trying to download the Interproscan DB at the same time as scanning against the CDD and HMMPfam DB only here: https://interproscan-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/LocalLookupService.html

Two hours after starting the download, the screen I saw was...

https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/iprscan/5/5.62-94.0/lookup_service_5.62-94.0.tar.gz
Resolving ftp.ebi.ac.uk (ftp.ebi.ac.uk)... 193.62.193.138
Connecting to ftp.ebi.ac.uk (ftp.ebi.ac.uk)|193.62.193.138|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1574501425466 (1.4T) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: 'lookup_service_5.62-94.0.tar.gz'
lookup_service_5.62-94.0.tar.   0%[          ]   1.64G   216KB/s    eta 77d 17h

Why is it too slow? Maybe because I work in Korea? Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Mensur Dlakic]

With aria2 and multiple connections, I download at ~2.2MiB. The estimate is still ~190 hours.

aria2c --continue=true --max-connection-per-server=8 --min-split-size=1M https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/iprscan/5/5.62-94.0/lookup_service_5.62-94.0.tar.gz

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Thank you!

Answer 2

[colindaven]

It might be your university proxy server.

You can try with wget --no-proxy https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/iprscan/5/5.62-94.0/lookup_service_5.62-94.0.tar.gz (if allowed) or trying from your home PC and transferring by hard disk if all else fails.

Else talk to your local IT people to better understand why it is so slow.

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Speed increased up to 200 KB/s. Thank you! I will try to do from my home also.

[GenoMax]

EBI appears to be limiting download speed. As you can see this download is 1.4 TB so this is going to take days (I see ~640 KB/s max). You may want to email their support and ask if there are any other options.